We are planning an event of live music and visuals at My Goodniss vintage clothes shop in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The event coincides with a live performance of Screen Tests showing at British Art Show 6 (29th Jan-April 2006).

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We are planning an event of live music and film projection at My Goodniss vintage clothes shop in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The event coincides with a live performance of Screen Tests showing at British Art Show 6 (29th Jan-April 2006).

Revision as of 15:06, 5 December 2005

Open Music Archive, initiated by Eileen Simpson & Ben White, is a collaborative project to source, digitise, and distribute out of copyright music recordings. The archive website will launch on 9th January 2006 and will be open for anyone to use, edit and contribute to.

OMA @ Open Congress, Tate Britain

Open Music Archive presented at Open Congress (Tate Britain 7th-8th October 2005)

Open Congress was Inspired by Free Software: software that challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution. The innovative congress explored these implications for art, visual culture and cultural production in general.

For Open Congress, Ben played a short DJ set of music made entirely of samples of out-of-copyright recordings, mainly sourced from 1920s 78rpm records. An accompanying slideshow will uncover the process of tracking this material.

DJ Performance of Screen Tests, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

For British Art Show 6 we were invited by artists Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings to collaborate and develop Screen Tests. Working with out-of-copyright film material from the regional film and television archives of the BAS6 host cities we created a new film. Using public domain recordings, Ben created the soundtrack for Screen Tests and performed a remixed version live at the BAS6 launch at BALTIC. Further live performances are scheduled for Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol.

Open Music Archive presents an Evening of Free Music and Films

We are planning an event of live music and film projection at My Goodniss vintage clothes shop in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The event coincides with a live performance of Screen Tests showing at British Art Show 6 (29th Jan-April 2006).